POLITICS

Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu has apologized to founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffour after the former angrily questioned his [Amoako Tuffuor] relevance both at the party level and government. Some controversies have emerged between the two following pronouncements by Dr Amoako Tuffuor over the upcoming primaries vis-à-vis the party’s intention of ...

Former Minister of Communications Dr Edward Omane Boamah may be lacing his boots to contest the 2020 parliamentary elections as NDC’s candidate for Mpraeso Constituency. Posters of the former NUGS President are already making rounds on social media. He has yet to comment on the posters but it is clear the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will give the former cabinet ...

The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that government’s initiatives, were not slogans but policies implemented to benefit Ghanaians. He said the programmes, such as the One District One Factory (1D1F), Planting for Food and Jobs and Free Senior High School, were all policies put in place to protect the vulnerable and the poor in the deprived communities. Dr ...

An Accra High Court has thrown out an application by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to search the phone records of the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi. The court has also denied the police access to Mr Gyamfi’s Facebook records. In his ruling, the Judge described the CID’s application ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, the Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu as well as the Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh and seven others could go unopposed in the NPP parliamentary primaries. Those seeking to contest them are facing growing challenges in acquiring the nomination forms. One of them, Akwasi Amofa Agyemang who is seeking to unseat ...

The trial of the National Chairman of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and the Communications Officer of the NDC, Anthony Kwaku Boahen, has begun amidst multiple controversies. The State led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Atakora Obuabisa today the 29th of January 2020 called their first witness. The witness who identified himself to the Court ...

Although the incumbent New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North (CCN) constituency, Barbara Asher Ayisi, has not picked forms yet to contest in the party’s upcoming primaries, she seems to be getting more competitors as a formal Assembly member of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA ) picks nomination form to contest. Lawrence Ampah popularly ...

A former member of parliament for the NPP Francis Addai-Nimoh has written to the party leadership expressing concerns over the difficulties he is facing in buying the party’s parliamentary nominations forms. According to him, executives in the Mampong Constituency are making it difficult for him to procure the forms in order to contest in the upcoming primaries. In a letter ...

Mr Justice Eric Kyei-Baffour, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, with additional responsibility as a High Court judge, will continue to preside over the trial of the five individuals accused of embezzling $4 million belonging to the National Communications Authority (NCA) during the erstwhile Mahama administration. That was the decision of the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has described government’s efforts towards clamping down the vigilantism menace a PR gimmick. Mr Nketiah is of the view that the various steps taken following the violence that erupted during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in Accra were nothing but an illusion to conceal the ill intentions of the Akufo-Addo-led administration. ...